October
02
/ 2022
A team of archaeologists have studied the remains of a 10,000-year-old baby with high technology. Their new paper not only found signs of ritual burial, but it reveals that baby carriers, or baby slings, were in use at the end of the last Ice Age. In December last year Ancient Origins reported on a study published in Scientific Reports conducted by team of Italian archaeologists and paleoanthropologists studying Neve, a 10,000-years-old baby girl’s skeleton. Discovered at the cave site of Arma Veirana in Liguria, northwestern Italy, the baby was buried with over 70 pierced shell beads, four shell pendants and an eagle-owl talon. These grave goods suggested she has been treated very carefully after dying, if not ritually buried. Proof
